The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former ...

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Are we alone? Scientists investigate the rarity of life on Earth-like planets with groundbreaking telescopes and methods.

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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